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Related: About this forumGerman church reinstates antisemitic 'Jew-sow' sculpture
A German medieval church has reinstated an antisemitic sculpture depicting a Jewish male in an obscene pose with a pig after a local authority ruled that the object had protected status.
The church, in the town of Calbe, 45 miles northwest of Leipzig, is one of 30 religious buildings in Germany to have a Judensau Jew-sow sculpture which dates back to the Middle Ages, when antisemitism was rife in the country.
After the carving was taken down to be restored, the parish decided in March that it was too offensive to return to the buttress and should be hung elsewhere.
https://www.thejc.com/news/world/german-church-reinstates-antisemitic-jew-sow-sculpture-1.500693
This is revolting.
I have to be honest, I have never heard of these things, to think there are 30 of them in Germany, on churches no less.
bobbieinok
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They hope they have eliminated a large portion of the antisemitism stain in Germany
I think many do not know how anti semitic Luther was. I don't recall ever learning about it in church or in my German language and lit studies through graduate school. I discovered it through personal reading and study.
I think this aspect of his life and legacy should be widely taught and spoken of.
Alacritous Crier
(3,813 posts)Mosby
(16,251 posts)JudyM
(29,181 posts)Maybe well culturally evolve.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)and I am not Jewish. I believe I first read about this in a James Michener novel, most likely "The Source". As I recall an observant Jew in medieval Germany was forced to kiss the ass of a statue of a sow with a group of stereotyped Jews suckling from the sow. It was pretty disturbing...
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)If they are removed, people forget.
People are already denying the Shoa and it would be forgotten completely, but for the camps exist.
Never forget.